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Media freedom, commercialism and a decade of democracy
The Last Word
H Wasserman
All the news that is fit to sell? Media freedom, commercialism
and a decade of democracy
1. INTRODUCTION
If one were to single out the most significant change to the South African media, and
specifically journalism, during the first decade of democracy, what would that be?
Following the dominant discourse in which the majority of ten years of democracy
retrospectives were clad, one would probably look for political or legal changes that
took place during ..